Oral Glucose Tolerance Curve and Hypoglycemias in the Fed State

Abstract

Classes of Hypoglycemic DisordersBECAUSE of the intermittency of our eating pattern, all human intermediary metabolism can be subdivided into two categories: the fed state and the fasted state. The fed state begins whenever we eat, and regulation is designed to provide efficient, rapid and synchronized disposition of exogenous fuels for oxidation and storage. When levels of circulating fuels have returned to pre-eating values, the fasted state is initiated. Regulatory processes are then structured to provide fuels from endogenous resources in a manner that is parsimonious and yet appropriate to prevailing energy needs.¹ In Western society, where three meals a . . .